Social Science Matrix

Author Meets Critics: “Voices in the Code”

Date/Time
Monday
10 Oct 2022
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location
Social Science Matrix

Event Type
Book Talk

Join us on October 10 for an “Authors Meet Critics” panel about the book Voices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made, by David Robinson, a visiting scholar at Social Science Matrix and a member of the faculty at Apple...

Authors Meet Critics: How the Clinic Made Gender

Date/Time
Wednesday
9 Nov 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location
Social Science Matrix

Event Type
Book Talk

Register to join us on November 9 for an “Authors Meet Critics” panel on How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea (University of Chicago Press, 2022) by Sandra Eder, Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Eder will be...

The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India

Date/Time
Wednesday
12 Oct 2022
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
South Hall, Room 210

Event Type
Non-CSTMS Event

Join us for a Lecture on “The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India” on October 12th. Information has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice. In this study, Janaki Srinivasan examines the...

DEEPFAKE: A Rhetorical and Economic Alternative to Address the So-Called “Post-Truth Era”

Date/Time
Wednesday
10 May 2023
9:00 am - 7:00 pm

Event Type
Symposium

Since Greek antiquity, the rhetorical tradition has proposed to conceive and apprehend the search for truth differently from the Western philosophical tradition that was born with Plato. Platonic politics wished to control the city by subjecting political expression to the philosophical concept, whereas rhetoric opposed the logocratic and universal claim of philosophy, in the name of the diversity of subjectivities and forms of life that composed the demos, and...

Agriculture 4.0: Revolution or Repetition?

Date/Time
Saturday
26 Apr 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location
Social Science Matrix

Event Type
Conference

Agriculture 4.0 promises to be the newest “agricultural revolution.” It adapts the technologies of Industry 4.0—AI, advanced robotics, the Internet of Things, and more—to the agri-food system. Proponents of these “disruptive” technologies argue that they will solve many of the problems associated with...